1 . 假设你是某高中学校学生会主席李华，元旦来临之际，你校将举行合唱节(Choral Festival)，你听说本校外籍教师Shelley女士也愿意参加，请你根据以下内容给她写一封邀请信：
1．表达邀请愿望；
2．简单介绍合唱节（合唱节举办的时间、地点；合唱节内容校长演讲、老师和学生表演节目；活动的意义）；
3．希望对方接受邀请。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.开头已为你写好。
Dear Shelley,

How are you doing?

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2 . Singapore Zoo
Singapore

Singapore Zoo allows animals to walk around in spacious environments that are similar to their natural habitats (栖息地). Kids can join in learning about the animals of Singapore Zoo in educational programs, guided tours and camps, including the Sleep with the Beasts Family Camp. wrs.com.sg

Chester Zoo
Cheshire, England

The most visited zoo in the United Kingdom, Chester Zoo asks a team of experts (专家) who do research on six key areas around the world to develop programs that hope to prevent animals from dying out. The zoo runs a number of activities, such as Sing for Songbirds, a partnership with singer/songwriter Ashley Fayth, which tries to make people notice the danger facing songbirds in Indonesia. chesterzoo.org

Wellington Zoo
Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington Zoo is green in more ways than one. The zoo works very hard to reduce (减少) waste and reuse rain water. The zoo supports conservation (保护) programs, and its animal hospital, The Nest TeKōhanga, has treated over 3,400 wildlife patients since its opening in2009. wellingtonzoo.com

San Diego Zoo
San Diego, USA

Over 3,500 endangered animals call San Diego Zoo home, but the biggest achievement of this zoo is the number of endangered animals that are sent back into the wild. The zoo's breeding (饲养) programs provide valuable information on the behavior and health of endangered species in over 45 countries. San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research also asks over 200 conservation scientists to protect some animals from dying out. zoo.sandiegozoo.org

1. Where can people camp with their family?

A．At Wellington Zoo.	B．At San Diego Zoo.
C．At Singapore Zoo.	D．At Chester Zoo.

2. Which of the following websites will a songbird-lover be most likely to visit?

A．wrs.com.sg.	B．chesterzoo.org.
C．wellingtonzoo.com.	D．zoo.sandiegozoo.org.

3. What do we know about the San Diego Zoo?

A．It has been the most popular zoo in the USA for years.

B．It runs an animal hospital to treat wild animals.

C．It has helped some animals go back to nature.

D．It helps American endangered animals only.

3 . The Munfords were moving into a house they bought. They wanted to see if all the furniture was in good condition before they used it. James Munford was_________ the built-in drawers in the closet last month, when he found two cases holding 46 gold Liberty $5 coins and 18 Morgan silver dollars that were made in the 1800s. They looked really old, like they were really worth a lot of _________.

James and his wife, Clarrisa, who are both retired thought the coins are _________a family heirloom (传家宝), so they went ahead and made sure the owner _________them back. James texted pictures of the _________to the home’s former owner and made plans to _________them.

“We really didn’t know anything about the _________of the coins. We really didn’t _________, to be honest with you. We knew they were not ours,” said Clarrisa Munford, who runs a restaurant business.

The home’s _________owner, who asked not to be __________, estimated (估算) that the coins were worth about $25,000. He said he’d put the containers in the back of his sock drawer a few months ago for safe keeping and didn’t see it in his__________ to get packed up and moved out of the house. The rest of his coin collection was in his safe. He didn’t realize the coins were __________until the Munfords contacted him. He added that he would never have known if they had __________to sell the coins and keep the money for themselves.

The Munfords are still unpacking and their furniture just arrived last week, so they haven’t had a __________to see if there are any other __________.

1.

A．trying

B．repairing

C．removing

D．checking

2.

A．trouble

B．money

C．effort

D．time

3.

A．specially

B．actually

C．probably

D．exactly

4.

A．got

B．put

C．gave

D．held

5.

A．closets

B．drawers

C．cases

D．coins

6.

A．return

B．collect

C．sell

D．examine

7.

A．number

B．origin

C．value

D．use

8.

A．believe

B．care

C．understand

D．agree

9.

A．generous

B．real

C．kind

D．former

10.

A．named

B．paid

C．rewarded

D．praised

11.

A．attempt

B．hope

C．hurry

D．demand

12.

A．missing

B．old

C．dangerous

D．secure

13.

A．struggled

B．decided

C．helped

D．promised

14.

A．place

B．means

C．chance

D．desire

15.

A．choices

B．problems

C．suggestions

D．surprises

4 . 全球气候变暖是目前人类面临的最大环境问题，请你根据以下提示，写一篇英语短文，为节能减排献计献策。
要点提示：
1.球变暖的原因和危害；
2.应对措施；
3. ......
注意：
1. 词数 80-100；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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5 . My first day in high school will never be forgotten.When I got to the classroom in the morning, I saw that Mr.Brown had already put our names on our tables.After walking a few steps, I saw my name on the table right in the middle of the classroom.Walking up to my table, my heart sang.“It would be great to sit there.I could see everything easily,” I thought to myself.

A while later, the other students entered one by one and took their own seats.And then Mr.Brown started talking.He showed us his classroom rules and tried to explain them.All of a sudden, a student called Tony started singing loudly.All the while he moved his body to the music.His deskmate Josh couldn’t understand why he was doing these things.Then he stood up and talked to Mr.Brown, “I don’t want to sit with this strange guy.Can I swap seats with someone else in this room, please?”

Mr.Brown didn’t answer his question directly.He stopped what he was doing and turned on his computer.Then he showed us some pictures about autistic（患自闭症的）kids.He explained that autistic kids have little self-control.They seem to do things that are beyond（超出）everyone else`s understanding.However, they can do many other great things, in the field of art or music for example.Then he told us that Tony was not good at maths, but loved songs.“He can sing thousands of songs.What's more surprising is that he can remember all the words without any mistakes.” In the end, Mr.Brown added that although autistic kids were different, they should be loved.

Since that first day in high school, I became Mr.Brown's admirer（崇拜者）.I was pretty sure Mr.Brown would get all of us on the right track（轨道）.

1. How did the author feel seeing his table?

A．Excited

B．Safe

C．Proud

D．Unhappy

2. What did Mr.Brown do in the class first?

A．He introduced Tony.	B．He explained the classroom rules.
C．He got his computer ready.	D．He showed some pictures.

3. In what way was Tony special?

A．He acted politely.	B．He was understanding.
C．He had a mathematical mind.	D．He knew music very well.

4. What does the author think of Mr.Brown?

A．He's off the right track.	B．He can make a great teacher.
C．He has too many admirers.	D．He is too different to be loved.

6 . Best books for 12 to 14-year-olds

Mortal Engines

Author: Philip Reeve

Publisher: Scholastic

London is on the move again: the city searches the world for resources on wheels, eating smaller towns. But when he is thrown off the city, young hero Tom is soon forced to reexamine life as he knows it.

Set in a futuristic background, this imaginative story is a blend of action and adventure. The book has won the Blue Peter Book Award.

Coram Boy

Author: Jamila Gavin

Publisher: Egmont

Toby’s and Aaron’s lives are linked by the Coram Man, who collects unwanted children from across the country, supposedly to send them to a safe new life. In reality, the man sells the children into slavery. Soon, Toby and Aaron find themselves united on a journey, filled with danger and excitement.

Rich with historical detail, this book provides an important insight into the 1750s society. It was a winner of the Whitbread Children’s Book Award.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Author: Mark Haddon

Publisher: Red Fox

Seen through the eyes of Christopher, a mathematical talent and Sherlock Holmes fan, this novel opens with the discovery of a dead dog on a neighbor’s lawn. In his search to discover the identity of the killer, Christopher uncovers some information about his own family and he starts a journey to London to find his mother.

Watership Down

Author: Richard Adams

Publisher: Penguin

Young rabbit Fiver believes that a great disaster is about to strike the place where he lives－but no one will listen to him. At last he manages to ask a few brave rabbits to leave before it’s too late. Hunted by dogs and foxes, their journey is a dangerous one—but the rabbits can still dream of a peaceful and safe new life at Watership Down.

This book won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal.

1. Which author’s book focuses on life in the future according to the text?

A．Philip Reeve’s	B．Jamila Gavin’s.
C．Mark Haddon’s	D．Richard Adams’s.

2. What makes Christopher try to find out the truth?

A．His losing touch with his mother.	B．The dead body of a dog.
C．His neighbor’s request.	D．An overgrown lawn.

3. What is special about Watership Town?

A．Its main character is a detective lover.	B．Its stories are based on historical facts.
C．It is about some rabbits escaping a disaster.	D．It won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award.

7 . Uber has picked Melbourne as the first city outside of the United States to test its flying taxis.

Test flights in the Australian city will begin next year with a goal of commercial ride-hailing (打车) services by 2023, it announced on Tuesday.

“We will see other Australian cities following soon after,” Susan Anderson, Uber's regional manager for Australia, said at the company's annual flying car conference in Washington DC.

Melbourne will be the third city to host trials of Uber's flying taxis, after Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, the electric taxis will be flown by a pilot.

Uber has partnered with NASA for its flying taxi program, named Elevate, and is one of several companies racing to make flying vehicles a reality. Other big names in the business include Rolls Royce and Boeing.

Even as it works on developing autonomous, electric flying vehicles–which are still several years away-Uber is taking its service to the skies in other ways.

The company will start a helicopter service on July 9, taking passengers from Manhattan to JFK Airport in eight minutes. It says customers who buy the roughly $200 ticket will save an hour of travel time during rush hour.

But the rollout (首次展示) of that service is now clouded by safety concerns about increased air traffic in cities, following two accidents in New York City in recent weeks.

A helicopter crashed onto the roof of a Manhattan building on June 10, killing the pilot. This deadly accident came weeks after a helicopter crash in the Hudson River. There were no deaths in that incident.

“For us, it shows the need to make safety the absolute base of everything we do,” said Eric Allison, Uber's head of Elevate.

Safety will also be a concern in Australia, where Uber has nearly 4 million regular customers for its ride-hailing service.

“We will continue to work with communities and governments to ensure that we create an urban aviation (飞行) ride-share network that is safe, quiet and green,” Anderson said.

1. What can we learn about the flying taxis from the text?

A．Most flying taxis are self-driving.

B．The flying taxi was first tried out in Melbourne.

C．Flying taxis could be used in Australia in several years.

D．The flying taxis turned out to be a failure in America.

2. Why does the author mention Uber's helicopter service?

A．To further introduce NASA's cooperation with Uber.

B．To show the challenges facing the flying taxi service.

C．To explain why Uber's technology stands out.

D．To describe the development of Uber's flying services.

3. What is the author's major concern about flying taxis?

A．Safety.

B．Management.

C．Side effects.

D．Affordability.

4. What is the author's attitude toward the flying taxi?

A．Objective.

B．Skeptical.

C．Disapproving.

D．Optimistic.

8 . Added sugar exists in nearly 70 percent of packaged(袋装的)foods and is found in bread, snacks, and most breakfast foods. The average American eats about 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day (not counting the sugar that exists naturally in foods like fruit). That's about double the suggested- limit for men (nine teaspoons) and three times as much as the limit for women (six teaspoons).

A number of health organizations agree that cutting back on added sugar is a good idea. They believe that added sugar is a main cause of obesity, but normal-weight people can experience the same health problems connected with too much sugar. A l5-year study found that eating high amounts of added sugar doubles the risk of heart disease, even for people who aren't overweight.

Added sugar has also been connected with an increased risk for diabetes and even Alzheimer's disease.

And increasingly, the scientific community is realizing the worrying nature of added sugar. Brain scan studies show that fructose (a form of sugar found in fruits) put in packaged foods influences the dopamine system, a messenger center in the brain that controls how we experience pleasure. Eating lots of fructose in packaged foods can create changes in the brain similar to those found in alcohol(酒精) addicts.

The fructose found in packaged foods is taken from corn and sugar cane, and much or all of the fiber (纤维)has been taken away. Without the fiber to slow it down, your body gets a big amount of fructose that can cause health problems. However, not to worry: When you eat a strawberry or other fruits, you are eating fructose in its natural state, and it comes with a lot of fiber, which slows the speed at which sugar enters your blood. Your body can deal with fructose well when it's eaten as fruit.

1. What do we know about Americans from paragraph 1?

A．They eat too much added sugar.	B．They are eating more packaged foods.
C．They prefer added sugar to natural sugar.	D．They are adding more sugar to their foods.

2. What did the brain scan studies find out about added sugar?

A．It may cause heart disease.

B．It can influence how the brain works.

C．It may be connected with Alzheimer's disease.

D．It can lead to people being unable to stop taking it.

3. What does the author think of eating fructose in fruits?

A．It is all right.	B．It is harmful.
C．It makes the blood run slowly.	D．It can cause health problems.

4. What does the text mainly discuss?

A．Why fructose works best with fiber.

B．How fructose does Americans good.

C．How added sugar can influence your health.

D．Why added sugar can be found in so many kinds of foods.

9 . F the Art World competition

.Prize - The winner of each type will get the chance to display their artworks in a week-long exhibition in Chelsea, New York.

.Eligibility - Open to artists all over the world.

.Entry Fee(参赛费)-$24 for a maximum of 3 submitted(提交的)photos.

.Date of Exhibition - From 25th April to 2nd May.

F the Art World is an international art competition organized by www.ftheartworld.com which is quite unusual, compared to other competitions. The artworks are not judged on the basis of creativity and skill. Instead, they're judged by the depth of the subject matter. The subject this year is “A Competition About Change”, where artists can try and show how they'd like to change humanity in a good way.

Notes

*For this competition, there are three types for submissions, namely: street art, fine art, and digital art.

*Each type will have a winner as chosen by the organizers and all the winners will have the wonderful chance to exhibit their works at the Unarthodox Gallery in New York in a week-long exhibition.

*All the winners will also receive 100% of the sale price when any of their artworks are sold!

Winners will also be displayed on the website and the entrants' artworks will also be displayed in the opening ceremony(仪式)as well.

1. What is special about F the Art World Competition?

A．It is free to attend.	B．It lasts for over a week.
C．It is open to artists in New York.	D．It centers on the depth of the artworks.

2. What will the winners get?

A．Prize money.	B．A chance to visit an exhibition.
C．A written judgement of their artworks.	D．Money from the sale of their artworks.

3. Where will the entrants' artworks be shown?

A．In the street.	B．In the opening ceremony.
C．On the website.	D．At the market.

10 . I was 11 years old when my family went on a holiday to Beijing. That was my first trip to China. One morning, my brother became _______ and had to stay in the hotel to rest. As my mum had to be with him, she told me to _______ breakfast from the food store in front of the _______. She also told me that she would be right by the window, _______ me.

Had I been back home, it would have been a(n) _______ task. But my inexperience and the _______ to the environment turned it into a highly challenging experience I still remember _______. The food store had a lot of people coming and going. I had no _______ what to do. Overwhelmed (不知所措的) and on the point of crying, I suddenly _______ what my mum had told me. I stepped out of the shop and looked up. True to her __________, she was just by the fifth-floor window, giving me the thumbs-up (翘拇指). I was comforted.

Although she wasn't right by my side, I knew she was __________ giving me the confidence to complete the task. On the top of the __________ were all Chinese characters (汉字), with most characters unrecognizable to me. At that moment, I __________ my task. My mum had given me very simple instructions—buy several cakes—but among the __________, what she said was gone.

I realized that was the biggest challenge I faced. I had no idea how to __________, or to whom to give my orders. Fortunately, a lady saw me and communicated with me in fluent English. That made me remember what I wanted to buy.

1.

A．afraid

B．ugly

C．ill

D．busy

2.

A．cook

B．bring

C．carry

D．buy

3.

A．hotel

B．restaurant

C．street

D．door

4.

A．caring about

B．waiting on

C．watching over

D．looking after

5.

A．special

B．difficult

C．slow

D．easy

6.

A．carelessness

B．unfamiliarity

C．fear

D．badness

7.

A．fairly

B．partly

C．clearly

D．mainly

8.

A．idea

B．fact

C．doubt

D．question

9.

A．imagined

B．knew

C．understood

D．remembered

10.

A．hope

B．decision

C．word

D．way

11.

A．nearby

B．away

C．out

D．aside

12.

A．table

B．sign

C．paper

D．menu

13.

A．wanted

B．found

C．forgot

D．finished

14.

A．nervousness

B．accident

C．trouble

D．business

15.

A．eat

B．order

C．catch

D．choose